Cambodia/Singapore - Feb 2019 - Adjutants, Pond Herons, Wader, ? (1 Viewer)

[Alexjh1]

Just done a last pass on my photos for my trip, and a few extra shots came up that I wanted to see if could be identified.

Thanks in advance for any help!

1: Three adjutants from Prek Toal in Cambodia - I'm assuming all lesser but I'm struggling to find out what the best identifiers for greater in flight are?

2: A wader at Phnom Krom - wood sandpiper?

3: An incidental in flight bird while photographing the cormorants, the forked tail and distinctive dark wing bars seem like this should be identifiable?

4: A pond heron in Singapore - Been trying to work out if I can pick out any species from my shots, and one site suggested moulting to buff on the neck might suggest Javan?

5: A pond heron at Prek Toal, same question as the last one - any reason to pick it out as anything other than Chinese? Seemed a bit brighter/cleaner than usual?

Thanks again!

 

[Nutcracker]

Agree with Wood Sand for #2

Could #3 be an immature drongo moulting from juvenile (brownish) to adult (black) feathers?

 

[andyb39]

The storks all look like Lesser Adjutant. The perched bird lacks the bulging pouch of Greater, as do the two flying birds, in addition to being relatively short-legged and slim-billed. The main distinguishing feature of Greater in flight is the pale upperwing flashes.

 

[johnallcock]

Could #3 be an immature drongo moulting from juvenile (brownish) to adult (black) feathers?

It's definitely a bird in moult - the dark feathers are freshly grown and the browner ones are worn.
Structurally it doesn't look right for a drongo to me - tail too short, tail coverts too long, wings too pointed, etc. I think it's a hirundine, but I'm not sure which. I would guess at Pacific Swallow, but I'm concerned that there are no white patches visible in the tail.

 

[Alexjh1]

I'd leaned to a hirundine myself, but given it seems to be the underside of the bird (?) none of the species in Cambodia seem to have a dark belly?

 

[AntarcticanShrike]

Just done a last pass on my photos for my trip, and a few extra shots came up that I wanted to see if could be identified.

Thanks in advance for any help!

1: Three adjutants from Prek Toal in Cambodia - I'm assuming all lesser but I'm struggling to find out what the best identifiers for greater in flight are?

2: A wader at Phnom Krom - wood sandpiper?

3: An incidental in flight bird while photographing the cormorants, the forked tail and distinctive dark wing bars seem like this should be identifiable?

4: A pond heron in Singapore - Been trying to work out if I can pick out any species from my shots, and one site suggested moulting to buff on the neck might suggest Javan?

5: A pond heron at Prek Toal, same question as the last one - any reason to pick it out as anything other than Chinese? Seemed a bit brighter/cleaner than usual?

Thanks again!

No. 4 looks like an Indian Pond Heron to me due to the darker stripes.

 

[viator]

No. 4 looks like an Indian Pond Heron to me due to the darker stripes.

The Pond Heron isn't identifiable with any certainty (or guess) at this stage

 

[viator]

It's definitely a bird in moult - the dark feathers are freshly grown and the browner ones are worn.
Structurally it doesn't look right for a drongo to me - tail too short, tail coverts too long, wings too pointed, etc. I think it's a hirundine, but I'm not sure which. I would guess at Pacific Swallow, but I'm concerned that there are no white patches visible in the tail.

Looks Hirundine to me as well.